About:
Firewall Builder consists of a GUI and set of policy compilers for various firewall platforms. It helps users maintain a database of objects and allows policy editing using simple drag-and-drop operations. The GUI and policy compilers are completely independent, which provides for a consistent abstract model and the same GUI for different firewall platforms. It currently supports iptables, ipfilter, ipfw, OpenBSD pf, Cisco PIX and FWSM, and Cisco routers access lists.

Release focus: Major bugfixes

Changes:
A bug introduced in 2.1.15 that broke the generated firewall script for iptables if the option "use iptables-restore" was on is fixed in this release. Additional checks were added to the generated script for iptables to improve error detection and make sure the GUI properly detects when it terminates with an error. Support for load balancing with PF was also added.

Author:
Vadim Kurland [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.57/10.00 (30 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.fwbuilder.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://sourceforge.net/[..]iles.php?group_id=5314&package_id=125359
Changelog:
http://www.fwbuilder.org/[..]docs/firewall_builder_release_notes.html
RPM package:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5314
Debian package:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5314
OS X package:
http://www.fwbuilder.org/netcitadel/index.html

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		X11 Applications :: Qt
[Intended Audience]		System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		POSIX :: BSD :: FreeBSD, POSIX :: Linux
[Programming Language]		C, C++
[Topic]		System :: Networking :: Firewalls

Dependencies: [change]
libxml2 2.4.0 (required)
Qt 3.3 (required)
The XSLT C library for GNOME 1.0.0 (required)
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 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.1.19	20-May-2008	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Beta	2.1.6	18-Sep-2006	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
2.1.19	Minor bugfixes	20-May-2008 17:36
2.1.18	Major feature enhancements	08-Apr-2008 17:35
2.1.17	Minor bugfixes	20-Feb-2008 18:36
2.1.16	Major bugfixes	20-Dec-2007 19:05
2.1.15	Minor bugfixes	11-Dec-2007 18:26
2.1.14	Minor bugfixes	11-Sep-2007 18:27
2.1.13	Minor bugfixes	24-Jul-2007 18:54
2.1.12	Major feature enhancements	26-Jun-2007 17:27
2.1.11	Minor bugfixes	01-May-2007 17:12
2.1.10	Minor bugfixes	02-Mar-2007 18:31

 Comments

[»] Distributed firewalls
by blockall - Apr 16th 2002 10:07:11

Any chance you would implement the possibility to push one ruleset to a firewall module (maybe via ssh?) and restart the module and check status?
It would really give a kick to the application (which I really enjoy). And maybe support clustered firewalls?

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[»] Re: Distributed firewalls
by Vadim Kurland - Apr 16th 2002 11:35:54

you can intall and activate firewall policy if you use one of the install scripts available in the Contrib area on our sourceforge page. See FAQ 4.1

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[»] On FreeBSD
by Jens Nykaer - Apr 10th 2002 06:31:41

It's a delight to use the GUI. Very nice work. Installation on a FreeBSD however requires some insight. Add some FAQs around this subject and fwbuilder would definitily get more focus on the FreeBSD platform.

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[»] Re: On FreeBSD
by Vadim Kurland - Apr 10th 2002 14:31:58


> Installation on a FreeBSD however
> requires some insight. Add some FAQs
> around this subject and fwbuilder would
> definitily get more focus on the FreeBSD
> platform.
we are working out last portability issues in the API library and the GUI. A section about building on FreeBSD will be added to the Requirements document at the time of the next release (1.0.2)



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[»] Great product...
by Michael Groves - Feb 15th 2002 23:16:57

Just wanted to say this is a great product, and I hope to continue to get better. This has made configuring iptables rule-bases a dream.

Thanks again for all your work,

Michael Groves :)

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[»] libxml
by Ruben - Sep 20th 2001 15:41:05

You need libxml to install the RPM

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[»] Re: libxml
by Vadim Kurland - Sep 20th 2001 15:59:08


> You need libxml to install the RPM
yes, that's correct. See our Requirements file on the project's home page.

Vadim



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[»] Re: libxml
by Ruben - Sep 20th 2001 17:57:55


> yes, that's correct. See our
> Requirements file on the project's home
> page. Putting that in freshmeat dependencies would be very useful. This way would be easier to download all packages needed. Just a suggestion. nice application


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[»] Re: libxml
by Vadim Kurland - Oct 15th 2001 18:47:59


>
> % yes, that's correct. See our
> % Requirements file on the project's
> home
> % page.
>
> Putting that in freshmeat dependencies
> would be very useful. This way would be
> easier to download all packages needed.
> Just a suggestion. nice application
>
I guess it is better late than never. I added dependencies.

Vadim


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